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  1. What have you done to purchase orders? the delivery instructions are now all in one line, whereas we had them in separate lines to match our template. I suppose I now need to recreate one and then check to see how it comes out on our existing template. We've had no notice that these were going to change. The info is way too big now, like with the invoices. The Dashboard was bad enough. Why do you have to keep changing things for no purpose?

    15 votes

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    Thanks for the continued engagement with this idea, everyone. Taking on board feedback we're receiving on the new experience our product team are looking into the formatting of the delivery address atm. I'll share more news around this with you all, here.

  2. New Purchase order View is a waste of space.
    Critical items such as attachments moved to an obscure place.
    Requires extra cursor movement distances
    Requires Extra Clicks
    = Takes longer to do the same thing
    This is the pattern of anything "NEW" Xero does, you're developers are killing me by slaughtering the program.

    Why are you paying programmers and developers to ruin it?

    18 votes

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    Hey everyone, thanks for the additional feedback and support in this idea. Our product team appreciate hearing how the new Purchase orders experience is being received.

    Taking on board feedback they are digging into this request deeper to reconsider the placement of some actions.

    I will be sure to let you know of further progress around this here.

  3. When copying from invoice to purchase orders the following items are an issue.

    1) ITEM CODE NOT POPULATED TO PURCHASE ORDER

    2) COMPANY NAME FROM CONTACTS IS NOT POPULATING IN DELIVERY ADDRESS

    3) CAN NOT EDIT DELIVERY ADDRESS ON PURCHASE ORDER IF REQUIRED

    4) LAYOUT NOT CORRECT ON DELIVERY ADDRESS ONCE CONFIRMED, IT SHOULD BE LINE BY LINE.

    5) CAN NOT COPY PURCHASE ORDER FROM INVOICE.

    See example attached.

    14 votes

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    Hi team, just coming back around to this idea it actually turns out we have an existing one around being able to edit that you may all like to join here and I have recently updated - Our product team are working on some changes to this at present and I'll share more news here.

    Also listening to the feedback around the company name population our team are digging into this a little deeper to see if there are improvements we can make for this. I'll update this idea title so we can keep you updated on this feature here. Thanks !

  4. In the "old" version of Purchase Orders, once you unchecked the "Send Myself a Copy" box when emailing an order, it remembered your preference.
    Now the default is to "Send Myself a Copy" and I have to uncheck the box every time I send an order.
    I can understand if a vast majority of customers wanted this option but I struggle to see that being the case. Am I wrong???? Or can we simply have the option to turn this feature off?

    6 votes

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    Appreciate the feedback and wanting to see a consistent approach to this selection when sending transactions, Jaime.

    Our product team have a close pulse on the feedback we're getting on this experience, and looking into improvements for the send copy to self check box. I'll share further updates with you here. Thanks

  5. Receiving part orders. No "back order" capability. So what is the point of using purchase orders when you can't change to a "Bill" if only part of the order has been sent/received?

    109 votes

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    Hi team, thank you for the input from you all that helped with our team's research.

    Over the coming months we'll be delivering a new purchase orders experience, that'll provide the ground work for new features like the ability to create part bills from a Purchase order.

    We understand the appetite from our community in this and will be sure to keep you looped in on progress. 🙂

  6. Linking Purchase Order to Bill

    Purpose: To copy the details from the po to populate the forwarded bill from email fields.

    This would enable the ease of processing bills; using the data already on the po and verifying the costs accordingly.

    Also this is vital, so that you can match multiple bills to the same po.

    199 votes

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    58 comments  ·  Bills  ·  Admin →
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    Hey community, we know how this feature would really help reduce manual work, make reconciliation smoother, and give you more confidence when processing your bills, and managing orders.

    Some customers have shared a possible solution for the time being of using the bill’s reference field for the PO number. We know this isn’t perfect, but might help in the interim.

    I’m pleased to share that we’re refreshing purchase orders at present, and taking on board all the feedback surrounding the top requests from our customers in these forums.

    Linkage between Purchase orders and Bills is a high focus for our team in this space. While we can’t give timelines atm, we’ll move the idea to In discovery and keep you updated as work progresses. 😊

  7. Currently, the stock is not updated until the bill is entered. Many times the deliveries can be part-deliveries or billed on multiple bills. It is impossible to part bill and update the stock for the delivered items
    Also, we can get billed before any order is even processed by the supplier. To match the bill with the purchase order, it needs to be entered through the purchase order, which updates the stock before it has even arrived in store.
    We need the ability to update the stock record in Xero at the time of delivery, not on billing date.
    This…

    105 votes

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    Thanks for the support and voting on this idea, team.

    We're in the midst of developing a refreshed purchase orders experience, that gives us the basis for new features.

    As you may have seen in other recent updates, we have a keen eye on developing backorders, recording part amounts billed and allowing negative stock on hand in Xero.

    We'll be back to share another update as work progresses.

  8. Option to data-sync Amazon, Ebay, Etsy etc accounts to allow VAT invoices to automatically assign to purchases. This would save so much time each quarter when preparing VAT.

    1 vote

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    0 comments  ·  Bills  ·  Admin →
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    Hi Siobhan, I know it's been sometime since you started the idea here. We wanted to share that we’ve recently launched our Etsy integration in the Xero App Store.

    Right now, the integration focuses on helping sellers reconcile payouts, categorise income/expenses, and manage sales tax. We don’t currently have native solutions for Amazon or eBay, though we are exploring opportunities in this space.

  9. Ability to show partial amounts within purchase orders.

    Purpose: Because in some industries, showing partial bills to their clients can improve the workflow when doing ongoing projects.

    270 votes

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    Hi community, we totally get why you'd like to easily track partially received goods or services against a single purchase order, and to see the remaining balance within Xero.

    With the new Purchase orders experience that’ll be coming soon, our team has paid close attention to the flows and different needs in managing supplier goods that have been expressed through product ideas.

    Our team is looking to solve needs for tracking partial amounts received, so we’ll keep you updated of progress surrounding this here. 🙂

  10. Ability to export Bpay payment batches.

    Purpose: To save user time in exporting Bpay batches, as currently they have to do it one by one.

    115 votes

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    We want to thank everyone for the attention this idea has drawn. It’s clear from the many votes and detailed comments that having the ability to pay supplier bills with BPAY from Xero is a high-value feature for our Australian customers.

    We understand the desire in this and see how this functionality would enhance your use of Xero, and it is definitely on our radar.

    As you may have heard, our product team's current focus is on developing our bill payment solutions like we’ve delivered in the UK to more regions, with sights currently set on AU.

    Your feedback here is valuable to the team as we explore what this experience will look like. Though we can’t commit to any timelines as yet, BPAY is a feature that we’ll be aiming to support through our new solution. We’ll keep you updated on further news and progress for this, through the…

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